{"id":1711,"date":"2005-09-13T22:36:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T22:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1711.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","slug":"elizabeth-bear-hammered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/09\/13\/elizabeth-bear-hammered\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Bear &#8211; <i>Hammered<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about a quarter of the book to really get sucked into what was happening&#8211;there are several plot threads running right from the start, and I couldn&#8217;t quite see how they were connected&#8211;but I liked it once I got with its flow.  Judging by its cover (a bad thing, so I&#8217;m told), which shows a woman from the neck down wearing a military-style jumpsuit and holding a pistol in her metal cyborg hand, you think this might be on the militaristic side of SF, but it isn&#8217;t really.  The main character, Jenny Casey, is ex-military, and a lot of the plot surrounds the Canadian army trying to reel her back in, but there are no big space battles in sight.  <\/p>\n<p>What you <em>do<\/em> get is a scene-setting novel filled with interesting characters who are being drawn against their will into a Cold War-style secret project to be the first nation to build and fly a starship.  It is very clearly the first novel in a sequence (trilogy?), and it doesn&#8217;t really end&#8211;the last pages open up a vista onto what is to come in book two.  Which is now sitting in my Amazon shopping cart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about a quarter of the book to really get sucked into what was happening&#8211;there are several plot threads running right from the start, and I couldn&#8217;t quite see how they were connected&#8211;but I liked it once I got with its flow. Judging by its cover (a bad thing, so I&#8217;m told), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}